Telephone-mouthpiece attachment.



vover the hole 3,- and under the HOWARD A. POST, OF WINFIELD, KANSAS.

TELEPHONE-MOUTHPIECE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar, 18, 1919,

Application filed February 28, 1918. Serial No. 219,649.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that a citizen of the United States, residin at Winfield, in the county of Cowley and Sgtate of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone-Mouth' piece Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to telephones, and more especially to antiseptic protectors for the mouth pieces thereof; and the object of the same is to produce a protector which involVeS the use of sanitary paper interposed between the lips of the operator and mouth piece, with means for removing the paper each time the telephone is used.

This and other objects are accomplished by constructing the attachment in a manner hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and as shown in the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of a mouth piece with this attachment applied,

Fig. .2 is a sectional view on the line 2 2 of Flg. l,

Fig. 3 is a plan. view with the drum partly broken away.

In the drawings the letter M designates the mouth piece of an ordinary telephone whose details need not be elaborated here. Secured thereto in any appropriate manner is a plate l, the form of attachment shown in F1 3 being by means of tangs 2, this plate eing provided with a large central hole 3 coincident with the bell of the mouth piece end and of nearly the same size. The plate carries in the present instance at its eft end a drum 4 which has a hinged door 5, and at its right end a sprin cli 6 having a thumb piece'?. Now a rol o paper as indicated at 8 is inserted in the drum, and its free end led across the face of the plate, clip 6 asbest seen in Figs. 1 and 3.

en van operator desires to use the phone,

I, HOWARD A. POST,

right, this might be' reversed. or the he grasps the edge of the paper at 9, draws it out until a fresh stretch extends across the hole 3, and tears it off, and then he talks through the paper into the bell mouth end of the phone as usual. The paper should be quite` thin and sterilized in .any approved manner, and obviously no part of his lip of his mustache can come in contact with the mouth piece of the phone and therefore complete sanitation is effected. I might add that it is very frequently the case`that a person using the phone has need for a little piece of'paper, as when some memorandum is to be written down; and this attachment provides the paper ready at hand when such occasion arises. From time to time the door 5 of the drum can be opened and a new roll of sterilized paper inserted in a manner which will be clear. While I have shown the drum at the left and. the clip at the drum could be at thetop and the clip at the bottom if desired. All parts will preferably be of metal, suitably ernamented so as to prove attractive, and the attachment should be inexpensive and popular.

What is claimed as new is The herein described attachment for telephone mouth pieces, the same comprising an upright 'plate having a hole coincident with that of the mouth piece, tangs on said plate for securing it to the mouth piece, a drum at one edge of the plate for containing a roll of sterilized paper, and a long upright clip at the other edge of the plate and under which the paper passes, the clip' having a thumb piece. the whole for use substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiz in presence of two witnesses.

HOWARD A. POST.

Witnesses ,RUTH D. FnsoN, ROBERT I. S'I'EINER.

my signature 

